Software

Balfour Beatty's suite of market-leading software solutions help to visualise infrastructure condition and help with key decisions relating to rail assets.

ClearRoute™

ClearRoute™ is the market leading engineering software tool for calculating the clearances between railway vehicles and the infrastructure.

The software has processes for defining infrastructure and vehicles and can provide clearances between infrastructure and dynamic or static vehicles, passing clearances between a set of vehicles and stepping calculations for platforms.

ClearRoute™2 - launched February 2014, ClearRoute™2 offers a wealth of new and improved functionality as well as faster operating speeds to allow rail engineers to undertake gauging clearance analysis more effectively.

DesignRoute™

DesignRoute™ is an interactive and visual software package enabling track to be designed to current Network Rail standards. The system is capable of providing effective horizontal and vertical track calculations, OHLE data, track, structure diagrams, and plotting facilities.

Easy to set up new schemes

Produces both vertical and horizontal track designs

Calculates all design limitations and associated constraints

Simple process for data inputs

Graphical or numeric outputs

Vertical and horizontal software is available separately or as a combined package managed through the flexible common user interface Training course available and technical support provided

StressRoute™

StressRoute™ is a software product designed to provide railway operating and maintenance personnel with a means of recording, monitoring and managing all infrastructure stress related data within the rail network.

Stores rail stressing/disturbance records

Enables monitoring of critical temperatures within the structure

Complete with standard template reports that can be adapted for use

Provides visual tools to aid data management

Increases traceability and security

Unique reporting facility reduces paper usage

Interfaces to Verse Testing records

StressRoute™ will also prioritise sites that require stress related inspections

TrackRoute™

TrackRoute™ provides a flexible sophisticated data management suite for the administration of structure survey data. TrackRoute™ imports surveying data in a wide range of formats with data editing, survey version management and reporting facilities being provided. Track models can be created and tailored to a specific customer, region or country’s requirements. Data conversion facilities can be provided for integrating into clearance analysis software.

AssetView™

Our industry leading AssetView™ software system optimises the use of data recorded from data loggers and event recorders on the rail infrastructure to promote a ‘predict and prevent’ culture. This secure, web-based asset management system is compatible with most data loggers and allows the user to remotely identify trends in the recorded data to provide improvements in asset performance, reduce maintenance requirements and reduce costs associated with train delays. By using the real time track map replay facility, significant reductions can also be made in the costs incurred for fault investigations.

DataMap™

DataMap™ is a Microsoft Windows compatible visualisation and analysis tool. It can be used to synchronise data from various measurement or recording systems and spatially locate the information on a geographical map. DataMap helps make the best use of data by making it simple to understand and providing the foundation for ‘predict and prevent’ maintenance regimes.

Structure Survey Editor

Structure Survey Editor was designed to assist surveyors when undertaking measurements for tunnels, bridges and platforms by providing them with a tool that lets them view, and if necessary manipulate, profile data before undertaking any design or gauging clearance work. Data can be viewed at site and integrated with other measurements, such as cant and curvature. Measurement points can be edited to correct spurious points caused for example by lighting, foliage and areas of poor reflectivity.

A range of viewing and editing tools which support .Sc0/Xml data from an array of measurement devices

Allows inclusion of track geometry measurements such as cant and radius

Profiles from a whole structure survey can be viewed and edited together

Photographic images of structures can be associated with structure profiles

Database Management Services

We provide a complete and comprehensive database management service to maintain and manage data from many sources. Our Database Management team currently manages and maintains the National Gauging Database (NGD) for and on behalf of Network Rail as part of their obligation to the ORR for the continued distribution of asset data to support the industry.

Our services include:

Data input from hardcopy sheets

Administration and management of electronic data

Editing of raw data to produce customer specified end data

Data conversion between formats

End-to-end data processing

Creation of database commissioned reports

Cost and efficiency savings through automation of manually intensive systems

Development of relational databases and asset management software tools

All data management is undertaken in accordance with a fully audited ISO9001 procedure.